About The Word Left-handed
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Left-handed
Left-handed Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Left-handed?
[adj] not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
[adj] ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment" [adj] rotating to the left [adj] (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior [adj] (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent" [adj] using or intended for the lefts hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors" Synonyms | Synonyms for Left-handed: ambiguous | anticlockwise | bumbling | bungling | butterfingered | contraclockwise | counterclockwise | ham-fisted | ham-handed | handless | heavy-handed | illegitimate | left(a) | left-hand(a) | legitimate | levorotary | levorotatory | maladroit | morganatic | sinistral Related Terms | Find terms related to Left-handed: abusive | all thumbs | atrocious | awkward | backhand | backhanded | blunderheaded | blundering | boorish | bumbling | bungling | butterfingered | calumnious | careless | circuitous | clownish | clumsy | clumsy-fisted | contumelious | cumbersome | deflectional | degrading | deviant | deviative | devious | digressive | divagational | divergent | excursive | fingers all thumbs | fumbling | gauche | gawkish | gawky | graceless | ham-fisted | ham-handed | heavy-handed | hulking | hulky | humiliating | indirect | inelegant | insolent | insulting | left-hand | loutish | lubberly | lumbering | lumpish | maladroit | oafish | oblique | offensive | outrageous | ponderous | scurrile | scurrilous | side | sidelong | sinister | sinistral | sinistromanual | sloppy | southpaw | stiff | uncouth | ungainly | ungraceful | unhandy | unspeakable | unwieldy See Also | left Left-handed In Webster's Dictionary \Left"-hand`ed\, a.
1. Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous
than the right; using the left hand and arm with more
dexterity than the right.
2. Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious;
as, a left-handed compliment.
The commendations of this people are not always
left-handed and detractive. --Landor.
3. Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a
watch when seen in front; -- said of a twist, a rotary
motion, etc., looked at from a given direction.
{Left-handed marriage}, a morganatic marriage. See
{Morganatic}.
{Left-handed screw}, a screw constructed to advance away from
the observer, when turned, as in a nut, with a left-handed
rotation. An ordinary wood screw is right-handed.
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